Ubunu 10.10 Pidgin Sound Crackle Fix for Samsung NC10

After reinstalling Ubuntu onto my NC10 I found that the sound in pidgin was crackling.

I found the solution to my problem - run "gstreamer-properties" from a terminal and setting the audio default output plugin to ALSA

Ubuntu Linux 10.10 Brightness Fix

Ubuntu 10.10 came out today, and the brightness controls on my NC10 stopped working again...

The fix - enable the voria repository and install samsung-backlight

How? Pop a terminal (menu > accessories > terminal) and do:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:voria/ppa

followed by:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

and then:

sudo apt-get install samsung-backlight

Reboot your machine, and voilà - working brightness!

NC10 Brightness Fix in Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

After installing Ubuntu 9.10 on my Samsung NC10 I was a bit annoyed to find the brightness keys (and also the applet) had stopped working.

I solved the problem by following this advice.

**Always a good idea to make a copy of the old file before you start editing!**

I used gedit (which needs to be run from a terminal using "sudo gedit", sans " marks) to add nomodeset to menu.lst (located in /boot/grub/menu.lst) on the end of the line which begins with # kopt=

Once you have saved menu.lst, run sudo update-grub, restart and...working brightness keys!